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aircraft flight over Antarctica

...previously unseen. Innovations by Byrd included the use of an autogiro in 1933–34 and six helicopters in 1946–47. Meanwhile, the courageous flight of Lincoln Ellsworth, an American, and
Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, a Canadian pilot, across uncharted lands and icefields on the first aerial crossing of the continent from November 23 to December 5, 1935, clearly demonstrated the feasibility...

association with Ellsworth

In late 1935, on the third of four private expeditions to Antarctica, Ellsworth and Canadian pilot
Herbert Hollick-Kenyon flew across the continent from the Antarctic Peninsula to the abandoned Little America base on the Ross Ice Shelf. The two, often beset by bad weather, flew for some two weeks, and their plane ran out of fuel before they got to the base. They reached it only after a...

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